Posts Tagged: flowering artichoke

Purple Forest

Flowering artichokes indicate one of two things (1) someone never bothered to harvest them or (2) someone loves bees.  We let our artichokes flower. So does the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology...

Honey bee heads toward a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee heads toward a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Touchdown! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Touchdown! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You can't see the forest for the bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You can't see the forest for the bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Oh, the Critters We Overlook

Oh, the critters we overlook. If you have flowering artichokes, expect to see honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees and syrphid flies foraging on them. And a few spiders waiting for dinner. Don't expect to see a mayfly. The mayfly...

Mayfly, from the family Baetidae, rests on a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mayfly, from the family Baetidae, rests on a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Long tail of the mayfly, family Baetidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Long tail of the mayfly, family, Baetidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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